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User Rating:
7.0/10
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Director:
Stanley Donen
Writer:
Leonard Gershe (written by)
Release Date:
13 February 1957 (USA)
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Genre:
Romance / Comedy / Musical more
Tagline:
Presenting a Real New Dimension in Motion Picture Entertainment.
Plot Summary:
Jo Stockton can only get to Paris to meet with the beatnik founder of "empathicalism" (a idea that implores...
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Plot Keywords:
Photographer
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American Abroad
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Romantic Comedy
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Beatnik
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Eiffel Tower Paris
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 1 win
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4 nominations
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User Comments:
Colorful and energetic, but with a hackneyed script...
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(Complete credited cast)Audrey Hepburn ... Jo StocktonFred Astaire ... Dick AveryKay Thompson ... Maggie PrescottMichel Auclair ... Prof. Emile FlostreRobert Flemyng ... Paul DuvalDovima ... MarionSuzy Parker ... Specialty Dancer (Pink Number)Sunny Hartnett ... Specialty Dancer (Pink Number)Jean Del Val ... HairdresserVirginia Gibson ... BabsSue England ... LauraRuta Lee ... LettieAlex Gerry ... DovitchIphigenie Castiglioni ... Armandemore
Runtime:
103 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System) / Mono
Certification:
Argentina:Atp/ Australia:G/ Chile:TE/ Finland:K-16/ Finland:S (1966) / UK:U/ USA:Unrated/ West Germany:6/ Peru:PT
Filming Locations:
Chantilly, Oise, France
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Company:
Paramount Pictures
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Trivia:
Cyd Charisse was offered the lead role, but declined. Audrey Hepburn's agent initially rejected the film, but Hepburn overrode the decision after reading the script.
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Goofs:
Continuity: At the end of the film, we see Dick leave an evening fashion show party to join Jo at the church for the final dance. But a hazy filter once the church scene begins can't hide the fact that it was shot in broad daylight (complete with blue sky), even though it should still be evening.
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Quotes:
Jo Stockton:
I was taught that I ought not expose my inner senses...
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002) (V)
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Soundtrack:
He Loves And She Loves
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12 out of 17 people found the following comment useful:-
Colorful and energetic, but with a hackneyed script..., 4 September 2005
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moonspinner55 from redlands, ca
Audrey Hepburn always said she was an introvert forced by her
profession into playing extroverts, and usually that strain didn't
show. It doesn't show in "Funny Face" either, but her natural gamine
appeal does seem to get swallowed up in the fake-happy surroundings.
The Oscar-nominated screenplay about a famous photographer discovering
a beauty in a mousy Greenwich Village book-clerk is only good in its
early stages setting up the story, but when we find that the plot is
just a romance complication, it's a let-down. The plot-thread about the
philosopher in Paris is dire, and the film laughably compares a beatnik
lecture to a spiritual, but Hepburn works hard to create chemistry
between she and Fred Astaire (older and less enthused) and she has some
feisty, enchanting moments. She does her own singing here, unlike in
the later "My Fair Lady" (which coincidentally also gave Audrey a
fashionable makeover), and her dancing is sprightly and fun. It's a
fluttery, gay, fashion-magazine movie without enough soul in it to
really be absorbing, but the Gershwin songs are sweet and the
eye-popping color-schemes give it a great visual kick. ** from ****
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